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I'm trying to remember a Halloween movie I liked when I was younger. I don't remember much, but I remember a young man saying that Halloween was just invented by the candy companies... and also someone (I think his younger sister) was kidnapped by someone on Halloween and taken down into a basement that was all green-glowing and he had to rescue her or something like that. I remember there being some kind of wind mill with a bridge featured prominently.

...I realize that every single thing I described above (well, not the basement part) could also describe Hocus Pocus but I promise that this isn't the movie I'm talking about.

Anyone have any idea what this is?

-Aaron

Did it have aliens from another planet and the girl wore the same costume every year because her mother made it? And the mother's dead, and the windmill and bridge isn't in use because the river is dried up, which is why the town's in such poor condition (or at least I think that's why). And the aliens befriended the brother and sister, and there was one, I think his name was Bing, and all he did was say "Bing! Bing!" and he got really close to the sister, so when the aliens had to leave, everyone was sad?

And there was a special word in that film, and for a promotion, snickers candy bars each had a letter to the word, and all you had to do was collect all the letters, mail it to the company, and win a prize. Can't remember what the word was, though. Something with an "oo" in it, though. I remember that much.

Escapay

Yes! I think that's it. At least that sounds really familiar. Do you know what it's called?

-Aaron

Was it Monster Maker? I've never watched it, so I am unsure if that is even the story, but my daughter loves it.

Another one that she's watched but I haven't was Cartoon Network's The Halloween Tree. That was one about how the kids find out the origins of Halloween.

AwallaceUNC wrote:Yes! I think that's it. At least that sounds really familiar. Do you know what it's called?

Unfortunately, no. I was hoping my description would help jog yours or someone elses memory! As soon as I saw the line "wind mill and bridge", I remembered the movie.

The word might be key to remembering it, though I don't think it was part of the title. Snickers ran that promotion for a few years, so I'm guessing that the movie aired for a few Halloweens.

Don't quite remember the story, but by the end, the aliens revive the river as a gift for saving them (or whatever they saved), and so it was a happy ending.

I think the girl gave Bing her costume tiara or wand or something...sort of a token for him to remember her by.

The aliens, IIRC, were CGI, cause I don't remember them looking cartoony, and they certainly weren't puppets or short actors in costume.

Escapay

OH! Spaced Invaders!!! Was that it? It didn't have a dried up river, but the fields were dried up and barren and at the end, they dropped their.....uh....fecal matter, which was green and very fertile and brought the plants back, bigger and better

Oh man! You definitely jogged my memory, but I don't remember the word or the name of the movie. I really hope someone here does.

Siren wrote:Was it Monster Maker? I've never watched it, so I am unsure if that is even the story, but my daughter loves it.

I looked it up and it doesn't seem to match the description.

Siren wrote:Another one that she's watched but I haven't was Cartoon Network's The Halloween Tree. That was one about how the kids find out the origins of Halloween.

I love The Halloween Tree. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be available on DVD.

-Aaron

What about Spaced Invaders? Was that it?

Hmmm.... I don't know. Maybe? It sounds similar, but I don't really remember this one being a comedy. I guess it could have been, though. It definitely wasn't animated... was Spaced Invaders animated?

-Aaron

No, Spaced Invaders was live action

Great idea for a thread - Halloween movies you remember but can't remember very well, know of but don't know the name of.

There are a couple of Halloween movies / specials I would pay money to be able to remember / see again. But I guess now that I think of it, they were all just specials and not movies. But they used to show on the Disney channel, so it would be nice if there was an Archival schedule list for every year from around 1987 to now ( ).

But I remember parts of this really surreal animated movie that was animated in the style of that really great Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe movie (you know the one I'm talking about, the Yellow Submarine-ish one, very '60s/'70s-ish). All I remember about the plot was - there were People, so you know they had early '70s hairstyles and bell-bottoms, and like Monsters but I think they were mostly friendly, and there was a House that the monsters went into that the People didn't really want them to go in. And they were having a party and dancing. And that is all I remember about that one. Except that the Monsters were really well drawn and interesting.

The other one was a wonderful Halloween special of some TV cartoon show, like Yogi Bear but I don't remember what show it was. Though I doubt it was Yogi Bear, this one was slightly more contemporary and the character(s) more memorable. This one had to do with human characters going out trick or treating while the famed cartoon character of the show stayed inside the house where the trick or treating party came from and they saw a ghost in the house and got scared, but learned the ghost / ghosts were friendly and had to convince whoever else lived there that the ghost(s) were friendly.

I never watched Scary Godmother, but noticed it in my daughter's DVD collection. Could that be it?

No, it's definitely not Scary Godmother. That's a pretty recent production. The one I'm talking about has got to be mid-90s at the latest, possibly even '80s.

-Aaron

Was it Hocus Pocus? Of course not. Sorry I don't know.

Hello everybody,

Allow me to bump this thread four years later with some very happy news!

Unable to sleep tonight, I started browsing the forum to find Halloween titles I might want to upgrade to Blu-ray this year. In doing so, I came across this old thread. Reading my first post brought back all the memories I still have of this movie and renewed my eagerness to find out what it was.

Whether my Googling has improved since 2006, or because there's just more on the Internet these days, or both, I as able to at long last track down the identity of this nearly forgotten Halloween movie... which turns out not to be a movie at all, but a TV special:

The Last Halloween

Turns out it was produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1991 and stars Rhea Perlman. You can find all kinds of info on this awesome special (which has never been released to home video) at this AWESOME website I found tonight: http://halloweenspecials.blogspot.com/2 ... -1991.html

Even better, the whole thing is on YouTube! (See the link above).

What amazes me is how clear my memory was of certain elements in the special, and how accurate both my and Escapay's descriptions above are (right down to the Mars candy promotion that Escapay remembered). Memory is a funny thing!

I'm very happy about this.

-Aaron

OMGlee!

When I saw this thread was bumped up, and remembered what it was about, I immediately scrolled down to the last post with baited breath, hoping to see if the name of the mysterious Halloween movie was finally uncovered.

AND IT WAS!!!

Thank you so much for finding this, Aaron!

I don't have time to watch it on youtube right now, but I will definitely check it out tomorrow!

AND THE SPECIAL WORD IS KOOBIE!!!

Now I know why the brand "Coby" always sounded familiar to me! Deep in my subconscious, I was associating it with Koobie!

albert

That's cool! I don't think I've seen this, so I'll check it out. I LOVE Halloween specials. And I think the ones Lazario was describing are Witch's Night Out and Casper's Halloween.

Edit: Watching that Last Halloween special now. I realized when it started which one it was. That one made to promote Mars candies. I never saw it, but I remember when it aired.

According to both Wikipedia and IMDb, The Last Halloween won the 1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects (tied with an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation").

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156727/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Holloween

Incidentally, I found this new Disney Halloween Special UK video release really interesting! I bet blackcauldron85 would too! Pretty neat wraparound stuff with Snow White's witch using a cauldron from the Black Cauldron witches, and it IS cool to see one of these Disney villain programs that uses the new ones too!

http://halloweenspecials.blogspot.com/2 ... oween.html

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So tonight whilst biding my time between posting different winners for the UD Forum Awards, I decided to watch this old special, remembering that it was Halloween season and aside from a quick viewing of it back in August when Aaron re-discovered it, I hadn't seen it in nearly 20 years. It wasn't as good as I remembered it to be, but was still a fun nostalgic trip back to the early 90s. Koobie!



albert